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Battery Park & Governers [sic] Island, from Whitehall Bldg. – Antique Print

Battery Park & Governers [sic] Island, from Whitehall Bldg., c1911. — historic photograph
Battery Park & Governers [sic] Island, from Whitehall Bldg., c1911.. Historic photograph from the Governors Island National Monument collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Battery Park & Governers [sic] Island, from Whitehall Bldg., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Battery Park & Governers [sic] Island, from Whitehall Bldg.

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Taken from the upper floors of the Whitehall Building, this view looks south over the tip of Manhattan toward Battery Park and Governors Island, with the harbor spread out beyond. In about 1911, the park's waterfront was a busy edge of the city, where ferries, steamships, and harbor traffic met the land. Governors Island had been a military post since the colonial era and was home to Army garrisons and their facilities. Irving Underhill, the New York photographer who made and copyrighted the print, produced many views of the city's streets and waterfront, and this one shows how the island and the park sat within the wider harbor.

Created / publishedc1911.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial views 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ153757 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. D 538. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.
SubjectsWaterfronts--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Battery Park (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. Governors Island (New York County, N.Y.)--1910-1920. New York Harbor (N.Y.)--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,149 × 4,170 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210928

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